Gail F. Levine
Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Policy Studies
Gail F. Levine is an attorney advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Deborah Platt Majoras. She advises the Chairman on a wide array of antitrust matters, with special emphasis on intellectual property, standard-setting, and pharmaceutical issues. Before joining the Chairman's office, Gail was the FTC's Deputy Assistant General Counsel. She was a significant contributor to the 2003 FTC report on intellectual property and innovation, and she has helped organize hearings and draft reports on many other antitrust and high-tech issues before the FTC.
Gail is also one of the editors of the American Bar Association's forthcoming handbook on antitrust and intellectual property, and she is a vice-chair of the Computer & Internet Committee of the ABA's Antitrust Section.
Before joining the FTC, Ms. Levine was a trial lawyer in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ms. Levine clerked for Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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